Career Education Skills and Career Adaptability among College Students in China: The Mediating Role of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Career Education and Career Adaptability
1.2. Mediating Role of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy
1.3. Research Hypotheses
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measures
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. Correlation Analysis
3.3. Mediation Model
4. Discussion
5. Limitations
6. Implications of Educational Practice and Conclusions
6.1. Implications of Educational Practice
6.2. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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N | Mean | Standard Deviation | Min | Max | Skewness | Kurtosis | ||
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Career education skills | Individual perception | 222 | 3.539 | 0.679 | 1 | 5 | −0.549 | 3.792 |
Career planning | 222 | 3.057 | 0.808 | 1 | 5 | −0.239 | 2.708 | |
Total | 222 | 3.258 | 0.687 | 1 | 5 | −0.213 | 3.191 | |
Career adaptability | Concern | 222 | 3.718 | 0.762 | 1 | 5 | −0.25 | 2.988 |
Control | 222 | 3.760 | 0.684 | 1 | 5 | −0.304 | 3.68 | |
Curiosity | 222 | 3.763 | 0.697 | 1 | 5 | −0.395 | 3.644 | |
Confidence | 222 | 3.769 | 0.706 | 1 | 5 | −0.308 | 3.421 | |
Total | 222 | 3.752 | 0.626 | 1 | 5 | −0.35 | 4.226 | |
Career decision-making self-efficacy | Self-appraisal | 222 | 3.536 | 0.654 | 1 | 5 | −0.225 | 3.775 |
Occupational information | 222 | 3.483 | 0.645 | 1.4 | 5 | 0.079 | 3.182 | |
Goal selection | 222 | 3.528 | 0.615 | 1.2 | 5 | −0.181 | 4.088 | |
Planning | 222 | 3.549 | 0.649 | 1.2 | 5 | −0.166 | 3.641 | |
Problem solving | 222 | 3.591 | 0.613 | 1.5 | 5 | −0.119 | 3.485 | |
Total | 222 | 3.535 | 0.559 | 1.5 | 5 | −0.062 | 3.884 |
Variables | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) |
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(1) Career education skills | 1.000 | |||||||||
(2) Career adaptability | 0.596 *** | 1.000 | ||||||||
(3) CDMSE | 0.633 *** | 0.785 *** | 1.000 | |||||||
(4) Gender | −0.086 | −0.050 | −0.129 * | 1.000 | ||||||
(5) Individual perception | 0.848 *** | 0.568 *** | 0.552 *** | 0.038 | 1.000 | |||||
(6) Career planning | 0.948 *** | 0.528 *** | 0.591 *** | 0.103 | 0.636 *** | 1.000 | ||||
(7) Concern | 0.545 *** | 0.883 *** | 0.667 *** | 0.091 | 0.543 *** | 0.468 *** | 1.000 | |||
(8) Control | 0.531 *** | 0.861 *** | 0.700 *** | 0.047 | 0.481 *** | 0.485 *** | 0.711 *** | 1.000 | ||
(9) Curiosity | 0.537 *** | 0.894 *** | 0.699 *** | 0.008 | 0.470 *** | 0.500 *** | 0.690 *** | 0.693 *** | 1.000 | |
(10) Confidence | 0.481 *** | 0.876 *** | 0.694 *** | 0.026 | 0.496 *** | 0.403 *** | 0.683 *** | 0.632 *** | 0.765 *** | 1.000 |
Pathways | Estimate | 95%CI | S.E. | Estimate/S.E. | p-Value | |
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Lower | Upper | |||||
Direct effects | ||||||
Career education skills → Career adaptability | 0.259 | 0.025 | 0.559 | 0.133 | 1.944 | 0.052 |
Indirect effects | ||||||
Career education skills → Career decision-making self-efficacy → Career adaptability | 0.461 | 0.286 | 0.647 | 0.095 | 4.867 | 0.000 |
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Liu, X.; Zhang, X.; Dang, Y.; Gao, W. Career Education Skills and Career Adaptability among College Students in China: The Mediating Role of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090780
Liu X, Zhang X, Dang Y, Gao W. Career Education Skills and Career Adaptability among College Students in China: The Mediating Role of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy. Behavioral Sciences. 2023; 13(9):780. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090780
Chicago/Turabian StyleLiu, Xinqiao, Xinyuan Zhang, Yiming Dang, and Wenjuan Gao. 2023. "Career Education Skills and Career Adaptability among College Students in China: The Mediating Role of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy" Behavioral Sciences 13, no. 9: 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090780
APA StyleLiu, X., Zhang, X., Dang, Y., & Gao, W. (2023). Career Education Skills and Career Adaptability among College Students in China: The Mediating Role of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy. Behavioral Sciences, 13(9), 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090780